--- On Sat, 10/3/09, Michael Pollak <mpollak at panix.com> wrote:
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> *** We do not deny that there exist countries like America,
> England, and, if I knew your institutions better, I would
> add Holland, where the workers may be able to attain their
> ends by peaceful means. If that is true we must also
> recognize that inmost of the countries of the Continent
> force must be the lever to which it will be necessary to
> resort for a time in order to attain the dominion of labour.
> ***
>
> There's also a letter to Hyndman from 1880 or so, where he
> repeats the thought: the working class possesses its
> liberties in England legally, he says there, and if it knows
> how to use them, then a passage to socialism can be
> non-violent; but that's not possible in Germany, where the
> state is nothing but a despotism and has to be overthrown
> with violence.
>
> Chris
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